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there's that. lol, we're working too fast for each other here!

 

no man ! apart from all the tax it would take to get it to the uk etc I really enjoy helping people solve computer problems mainly for mental excersise to keep my hand in at it and make me think more

 

you saw this - yes ?

 

well after that you go back to smb.conf and make the guest account = smbguest in [global]

and in [media] its
force user = smbguest


sorry my mistake make the chown path to say

//home/icculus

like this
chown -R smbguest:smbguest /home/icculus/

 

ok, doing that (both ways) the terminal gave me "chown: 'smbguest:smbguest': invalid group"

I went back and checked, both the files saved correctly. Han't made the change to smb.conf yet.

 

ok 5 mins - hang on !


this is how to manage users in ubuntu
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/users_in_ubuntu

follow the instructions there till you come to making groups and put in the smbguest group and make sure that the user smbguest belongs to that group once its created - then reboot both machines and with some luck we will have cracked it - we are still at that tantalising point

oh and after run that chown commantd again I mean run it before rebooting
if it doesnt accept it - just reboot and see what happens I will wait

I'm not doing much at all tomorrow so I have decided to solve it by setting it up myself tomorrow to see the exact anomolies presented by ubuntu

if this doesnt work tonight see this thread sometime in about 14 / 15 hours

 

Okay, now it gives me a REALLY long list of operations "changing ownership of..." (i guess thats what the "chown" command is) and every attempt says "operation not permitted"

Oh well, like you said, we're at that tantalizing point. And we should probably both be looking at something other than a computer screen at this point! Thanks for all your help. Same place tomorrow?

 

ok I'm certain it will be done tomorrow - I've had a long day - see you later - take care

 

You too. thanks again

 

move the media directory from your home folder
/home/icculus/media

first of all make adirectory called (for example) /myfiles
so that it sits outside your home folder at the root level
then put the media folder into it so that the path to the media folder is now
/myfiles/media

cuz I just realised were trying to access a directory as "guest" when
to access your home folder you need more permissions than guest
and now your media section in smb conf must look like this
[media]
guest ok = yes
guest only = yes
hosts allow = 192.168.10.0/255.255.255.0
path = /myfiles/home
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = yes


and now try
chown -R smbguest:smbguest /myfiles

 

Okay, bear with me, I'm just waking up. I can't seem to create a new folder in my root directory. What's the command to do it from the terminal?

 

wow I spent 25 hrs sitting at the computer yesterday so I'm just waking up too and its 16:24 in the uk

 

creating that directory is simply that you open a command prompt in linux and make sure its at the root level
in other words so you can see all top level directories like /etc and /root
and all of those
then type
mkdir myfiles

 

Okay, I did that, and when I did the chown command it gave me "operation not permitted" tice (/myfiles/media, /myfiles)

I think this one might be similar to what you were saying about the home directory, because the GUI didn't even want to start these folders, and in order to do it t the command prompt I had to do the sudo command.

 

this is strange indeed

unless i forgot something really mindnumbingly tiny but important
then it should work

give me a hour or so - i'm gonna check something out and talk to someone i know (and then a therapist !!! HA HA LOL LOL)

 

I got it to work! You'll laugh so hard at me when I tell you what was wrong...

 

That last time I'd forgotten to add sudo to the command! I realized and tried again with sudo, and it seems towork now! I'm gonna try and move some things there and make sure I can acess them...

 

what ???

 

do you mean you have network access or just managed to make and own the directory

 

I mean I managed to make and own the directory, and now the directory will open in the network! It's still copying, so I can't tell yet how it's working beyond that. But xp could see that it was an empty directory, it opened the empty folder!